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London Calling

News & Public Service · April 10, 1940 · 15 min · 1,591 words

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in the overseas service of the British Broadcasting Corporation. Before I read the news, we are broadcasting important messages to the masters of Norwegian and Danish ships from the British government. The message to Norwegian ships is as follows.

A message which has been broadcast from Oslo, telling Norwegian ships to proceed to neutral ports, should of course be disregarded. Oslo is in the hands of the Germans, and the Norwegian government is conducting the national resistance from another 10th-day capital.

The message therefore is sent by the Germans. It does not come from the Norwegian government or owners, and would obviously be contrary to their wishes. Norwegian ships should pour at the nearest British or French port for advice.

announcement will now be the P-10 in Norwegian. Come, and go.

Come. Come. Get where we go. Go. Go. Go. They may say that we go. They may say to the masters of all Danish ships by pointing out that a broadcast from Copenhagen to Danish ships, telling them to proceed to Italy, Spain or other neutral ports was made under German dictation and should be disregarded.

Here is the full message in Danish. Here in the UK, there is a fight in British Columbia, in the UK. It is a British Columbia, and it is a British Columbia, a British Columbia, a British Columbia, The last thing I do...

even with this situation, I didn't see it, but I didn't. I would certainly like to be here. I wake up with all this stuff. How do I do that? Like this? Or this? The biggest thing I already said, is that there have been a lot of people there and that I...

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